Whois Privacy Protection, sometimes also called WHOIS or Whois Privacy Protection, is a service that hides the actual contact info of domain registrants on WHOIS check web sites. Without protection, the name, home address and email account of any domain owner will be openly available. Supplying fake details during the domain registration procedure or altering the genuine details later will simply not work, as doing such a thing may result in the domain registrant losing their ownership of the domain. The policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demand that the WHOIS info must be correct and up to date all the time. The Whois Privacy Protection service was introduced by registrar companies as a response to the increasing concerns about possible identity theft. If the service is enabled, the registrar company’s contact info will be listed instead of the domain name registrant’s upon a WHOIS lookup. Most domains support the Whois Privacy Protection service, although there are some country-code ones that do not.

Whois Privacy Protection in Cloud Hosting

If you’ve ordered a Linux cloud hosting from our company and you have registered one or more domains under your account, you will be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of them easily and to keep your personal info intact. Of course, this will be possible only with the TLD extensions that support this service. In your Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll find an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign next to each of your domains. Its colour will tell you if a domain is protected or not and in the second case, you can add Whois Privacy Protection with only a few clicks of the mouse. In this way, you can secure your private info even if you have not enabled the service during the hosting account activation process. You’ll be able to renew or to deactivate the Whois Privacy Protection service for any of your domain names just as easily.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account with us and you register a domain name under it, you can activate our Whois Privacy Protection service without effort. This takes just a couple of mouse clicks in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you administer everything connected with your semi-dedicated hosting account. This is the place where you can see all your domains and for each one of them you will see an “Whois Privacy Protection” button, using which you can order, renew or remove the service. Of course, this will be possible only with generic and country-code domain extensions that support this option and you’ll be able to see this beforehand, so that you will not end up paying for a service that we can’t provide.